Ignoring the host of SyFy, Asylum, and other low budget straight to DVD schlock I've been exposed to over the years (and even really bad festival bait I've had to sit through at actual festivals): Blossoms in the Dust.

It was nominated for Best Picture in 1941, a year that was host to some otherwise FANTASTIC films (notably Citizen Kane). It stars Greer Garson and Walter Pigeon, two actors who usually made movies together, and decent to great ones too.

Good lord is it an awful film. People complain about Oscar bait a lot but they don't know a real case of Oscar baiting until they see this film. It's based on a true story of a woman who started an orphanage. The premise itself isn't so bad, but the way the film goes about it is absolutely mind boggling. Within the first 15 minutes, Greer Garson is being courted as a young girl, finds herself favoring Walter Pigeon, has an affair with him, challenges social expectations to marry him, gets pregnant, survives a horrible pregnancy, has a kid, kid dies in an accident, the parents move on, Garson is forced to help take care of an orphan, she takes care of the orphan, and then decides she wants to start an orphanage.

Nice to see such an atypical answer to this question. I've never actually heard of this movie, but your description and a quick bit of google searching gives me the impression that it's astonishingly overblown and sentimental.

Would you say it's worth a watch simply out of sheer, morbid curiosity?

Catwoman. Finally we get a movie with a popular female superhero, who has a lot of material ripe for a solo film, and being portrayed by an Academy Award winning actress. What came from it was a steaming pile of shit that made movie producers think "well nobody wants to see a female superhero" instead of "nobody wants to see a piece of shit movie".

I feel it's the kind of movie that gets made when you don't actually give a shit about feminism or female empowerment. Where personality changes come about with superpowers rather than with personal, earned growth, and whereas male superheroes fight nazis, terrorists, and gods, the female superhero fights a female CEO. Because make-up is like kryptonite to Strong, Empowered Women, or at least that's what the straw-feminist handbook tells me.

And if lady movies can teach us one thing, it's that the greatest foe of women is jealous older women.

A good music video director would have nailed that scene. Bring in some loud music, synchronized with the action, let us actually follow what's going on, fast shots and tight editing...

Although if it were my scene, I would have kept the flirting implied instead of overt. You're not at a club, you're on a playground full of kids - the definition of mood killing. Use the scene to showcase Catwoman's phenomenal athleticism, no booty shaking or superpowers. Start with a "Play to five?" and then have her go from solid fundamentals to showboating slam dunks by the end.

You could even bring in some WNBA players to really sell it. Maybe as a double for Halle, or maybe as the "unbeatable" opposition to let her show off. Have a scene where she is watching WNBA in the background just to drive it home, and you just made the film girl-friendly in a way that might help you pull in that other 52%.

"Going Overboard" with Adam Sandler. It was his first movie. It's absolutely terrible. Nobody has seen it so it never makes anybody's "worst movie" answer but it's absolutely HORRIBLE. I can't stress enough how bad it is. "Jack and Jill" is an Oscar winner compared to it.

The last book was mediocre, but the third book was a fucking nightmare. 700 pages long and nothing happens until page 500. The whole middle of the book is all the major characters standing around while the minor characters win battle after battle with no challenge, culminating in the one dude killing like 150 people singlehandedly.

I'd personally recommend Jim Butcher's Dresden files, and Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Also check out Brian McClellan's Powder Mage trilogy - one of the best settings I've ever come across and the second book releases soon.

I'm not going to lie, I didn't watch anything Mask-related before I saw this film, but I knew that Jim Carrey originally portrayed the character.

There's a lot of things I hate about the film, but I can sum up most of them here: the use of close-up wide-angle shots (the movie felt like it was parodying itself); the horrible, horrible CGI effect, which makes the dancing scene in Baby Geniuses look like the CGI in The Last of Us; and the overall darkness of the film. I'm aware that The Mask was never exactly bright and happy, but at least the atmosphere was colourful and creative.

Son of the Mask felt like a desperate attempt to charm children, with x amount of sexual innuendo thrown in to make the adults feel like their money wasn't wasted.

Meet the Spartans though, was the only one I was stupid enough to spend money on. It changed me as a person, because it came to me right when I was entering my "cynical teenage years," and I began to realize how real hell was.

Oh god, I forgot that piece of shit. I would like to withdraw my entry of Queen of the Damned to second this. Oh god it was so bad. How can you fuck up something as simple as pop culture references so bad?

I went through the whole movie without laughing once until near the end when Rocky Balboa is released as a "secret weapon" against the Spartans. He then punches a dude's head off in a parody of a scene from 300. That shit had me on the floor.

I watched it because it is terrible. It is just amusing to watch trash movies like those. I think they are hilarious. But not because of the so called jokes that were written, but because of the bad jokes the writer thought were funny. Because they made it thinking it was hilarious, but it just is as flat as a pancake. The fact that they seriously shot scenes like this Britney Spears one in Spartans or this Narnia "parody" in Epic Movie makes me laugh. Not the scene itself.

The movie itself would make me angry, I assume.. But trash movies are made to be seen at the meta level.

I'm not sure the writers really even think what they're writing is funny, I mean there's so little effort put into it that I can't really believe they do. There's hardly any actual jokes in the movie, reference after reference of whatever movies came out recently. They just shit out the bare minimum amount of content that they can because they know that they'll make millions of dollars regardless.

It was actually one of my favourite movies when I was younger. So when people now say it absolutely sucked I got pretty confused at first. Then I watched a review of the movie and it turns out that it has some romantic plot that I've completely blocked from my memory. Young me(12 years old maybe) thought the movie was awesome. But I feel like young me might have skipped forward until the action starts and then forgot everything else about the movie.

Apparently no one here has seen it, because I'm sure it would also be anyones #1 worst movie ever. The entire movie takes place over a span of like 4 hours. Then the ending was just the worst turn in a story I have ever even thought was possible.

It should be noted that Skyline was directed by brothers who normally do visual effects for big films. Its production cost was something like 10 million dollars.
It's most definitely a bad film, but, because they demonstrated that you can do huge blockbuster effects on a very small budget, I can't consider it the worst movie I've seen.

I wholeheartedly disagree. Skyline is the best movie ever. My roommates and I have turned it into a drinking game. Every time you see a sci-if or action movie cliche, drink. It makes the movie hilarious and you completely destroy your liver in the process. They made a piece of shit movie but through the power of alcohol, we've gilded that turd.

I was so disappointed with that movie. I mean, come on... You can't tell me following four random people in an apartment is the most interesting thing they could think of.

Imagine instead, being one of the pilots flying completely rag tag no real formation fighters and bombers all out to deliver that bomb. Watching everyone go out around you just to protect the b-2 spirit (which isn't stationed in California to begin with but I digress) so it can drop this nuke.

The Last Airbender, it's probably a bit more visually appealing then most bad movies, but it was based on such great source material and slaughtered it so heavily that it really sits up there as one of the greatest stinkers ever, worst adaptation of all time at least

Yeah, it somehow had it set in its mind to having to cram as much story and exposition into the movie as possible, while at the same time doing arbitrary changes which only led to having to have more exposition

"Also, what if, instead of choreographing all the bending based on real martial arts moves, we just have people doing random movements that never seem to correspond to the stuff they're supposedly manipulating?"

I knew what I was getting into, but my date was a big Will Smith fan, and fell for the sneaky promotional material.

Was hoping for a father son action movie with cool scifi elements and hopefully some classic will smith one liners. Got a strange world of terrible scifi cliches, ever changing accents, and Will getting sidelined to bleed in a chair while Jayden survived giant eagles, giant tigers, giant monkeys, and the deadliest of all - the cold.

Horrible dialogue, terrible plot, stupid design, mediocre everything else. I would have walked out if I hadnt been there with someone.

TLDR: Its like M Night Shamalien took a generic father son wilderness survival story, added B-movie scifi cheesiness, sidelined his main actor/draw, and then gave it all the worst dialogue and plot imaginable.

I was fully expecting a "Will has to save Jayden at the last minute and teach him the true meaning of fatherhood and courage, but then he dies peacefully knowing his son loves him and he did the best he could" ending. What there actually was turned out worse.

Think of all the cool futuristic creatures that he could've stuck in there! So much potential for that movie concept. But no, M Night Shyamalan and jaden smith just went and took a massive dump all over it.

The Green Berets starring John Wayne. It's basically propaganda for the Vietnam War, the thing plays itself so straight it's almost surreal. I had to watch it in high school history class as an example of how the USA was portraying their involvement in Vietnam through the media. Basically, John Wayne struts around acting masculine, punching and shooting Asians for two hours. He even has a little Asian sidekick kid who follows him around.

It's the most ridiculous, disgusting and nationalistic thing I've ever seen, and on top of that it's just very slow, boring and poorly produced. I've only seen the first half hour. At that point my history teacher was so disgusted that she turned it off and told us we didn't have to watch it and that we should understand whatever the point was of us having to watch it, thank god. I'd watch any film listed in this thread ten times before watching another second of it.

Also, trivia note: Oliver Stone, an ashamed Vietnam veteran, was so disgusted by the film that he produced Platoon was a direct response to its inaccurate portrayal of the war. Why, oh why, couldn't we watch that film (or Apocalypse Now) in history instead?

I'm love 'so bad it's funny' movies, and The Happening is maybe the pinnacle. I've seen it easily 10+ times. There's a chase scene where the chaser is a light breeze. Mark Wahlberg sweet-talks a houseplant. Amazing.

I wouldn't put it as the worst movie ever. The first ten minutes of the film genuinely excellent. The idea of standing in a park and everyone just suddenly kills themselves is terrifying. Also, what makes the film so horrifying early on is how unexplained these actions are.

Then Mark Wahlberg shows up and is giving a lesson on Einstein's theory of bees. Then the deaths become silly. Then the mystery of the deaths gets 'explained'. Still, I'll stand by my love of the first 10 minutes of the film.

Easily Birdemic or FoodFight! One is a preachy movie that literally goes nowhere and the other is an ad-riddled Toy Story animated by infants. JonTron has great episodes on both of these. FoodFight! and Birdemic.

Look I liked the first one, it was Sandler and his friends doing dumb shit and I enjoyed it. Best "There's nothing else on" movie in years. But the 2nd was just absolutely horrible, it felt like they were trying to parody the first movie. I laughed like twice throughout the whole movie. I went in expecting more of the same which wasn't too quality to begin with, but what I got was much, much worse.

There are movies like Birdemic which are just awful in every aspect. Then there are movies like Jack and Jill which have a solid cast, legit script writers and tens of millions for a budget and still come out like a steaming pile of dog turds. I think the worst movie I've seen is either In the Name of the King or Journey to Promethea - which, btw, has one of the greatest trailers of all time.

My mother has seen this and seems intent that it's the worst thing ever created. When The (Marvel) Avengers came out I asked her if she wanted to go see it and she launched this massive rant about what a terrible movie it was.

Was flipping channels one day and I saw Edward Furlong, so I stayed on there for a bit out of curiosity. Then David Boreanaz and Tara Reid show up and I knew I was in for a bad movie. None of them are good actors, the story was laughably bad, it didn't seem to have a budget.

It is somehow worse than it sounds, but for some reason I have a weird attachment to it and kind of like how bad it is.

Easily Manos: The Hands of Fate. Movies like Troll 2 or The Room are obviously bad, but they're at least enjoyable as camp. Manos is not. Manos is 74 minutes of total pain. I saw it with the MST3K narration, and even Joel and the gang couldn't take it anymore. Somewhere in the middle, one of them shouts, "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAP?!"

I should note that I have not seen the Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny film cited earlier (which sounds AWESOME), or Child Bride, which the MST3K crew decided was worst.

I've become a bad movie fan over the past several months and eventually found myself on /r/badMovies. They had a thread like this going one day, asking the rest of the people there what the absolute worst movie they've seen was. One person gave a list of a few movies, attached with a warning to only watch these movies if you are really a hardcore bad movie buff. The warning only made me curious, so I decided to watch a couple of them, one of them being Vampire Dentist.

I've seen some real doozies over the past few months -- Manos, Birdemic, The Pumaman, Pocket Ninjas, The Room, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies!!?, several Asylum features, just to name a few, but it wasn't until Vampire Dentist that I felt I had seen just how bad a movie can possibly get. I'm not sure where to begin other than to say it had pretty much zero redeeming qualities, not a single scene that I can think of that it liked in the slightest. It was torture.

The other movie I watched from his list was Ankle Biters which probably takes second place in shit behind Vampire Dentist... a distant second though. They're both on YouTube, if you dare try to sit through them. I truly hope not to find a movie worse than Vampire Dentist, I don't know if I could take it. If it's not the worst movie ever made, it's close.

Jack Black was nominated for a Golden Globe for both School of Rock and Bernie, which were pretty good movies. I think the industry tried to push him too much in the 2000's, and it just got old. I loved him in King Kong and Brütal Legend (video game) too.

I have this fantasy where he takes an uncharacteristically serious role in an indie drama and does really well with it, nominated for an Academy Award, but probably doesn't win it. Weird, I know.

Transformers 2 was painfully unwatchable, and I saw it in theaters... I was with my friends so I couldn't actually leave, but I turned my head away from the screen numerous times, which unfortunately gave me a view of the entire audience enjoying themselves and and laughing about... And that too made me want to vomit.

I ignored the negative reviews of it, thinking to myself, those dumb pretentious critics just can't enjoy a silly film with giant fighting robots, it'll be fine, I'll just laugh and not take it seriously.

I went to the opening night in my hometown's cinema with some friends. A 500-odd theater was packed. It felt like I was literally the only one who wasn't enthralled by that gigantic piece of shit when I was in there. Everyone was laughing and hollering the whole way through.

I don't know how you can fuck a movie up so bad. Yes, it wasn't trying to be a big Oscar winner, I've heard that all before. But maybe try some basic coherence and continuity in the action sequences. Maybe not have hours upon hours of filler "comedy" (the term used lightly) scenes that just drag on and are never funny. Then there's the pornographic exhibition of the female actresses in the film, the complete lack of plot, the ear-splitting sound effects (AWSUM AND EPIK if you ask the people I went with) ... Christ, I feel nauseous remembering that night.

A film about giant fighting robots is never a masterpiece, but when it's that boring there's no defense. I was a hyperactive 17 year old, and I loved similar movies to that concept. It was a downright failure.

People always defend Michael Bay, saying he "does it like nobody else can" but that's a load of bullshit. His entire body of work is rife with these problems. If anything, the director that deserves the praise that Michael Bay receives for making terrible but enjoyable blockbuster films is Roland Emmerich. Michael Bay's work is just terrible but terrible.

You can't just call Troll 2 a bad movie and leave it at that. Troll 2 is a different kind of bad than the type being discussed. It's highly enjoyable to watch because of its badness. That's why they call it the "best worst movie."

The documentary is fascinating. I believe it's on Netflix. The director and the writer are so unfathomably disillusioned. And the mother... hooooly shit the mother. If you haven't seen it, watch it. It's really really good.

I was on a binge of Troma films and before you say "But troma movies are suppose to be bad." Yes. I know. That's the joke of like 90% of their films is that they can be outright goofy B-Movies with dick and fart jokes. I get it.

Troma also releases serious films (that no one pays attention to) and they also support indie film studios.

In my quest for Lloyd Kaufman and watching every one of his movies he has either been in (including Gamer) or directed, I came across Period Piece.

Period Piece is an arthouse style film made my some hobo and it's absolute garbage. The excuse is that it's an arthouse film, but there is nothing creative about it, it's just extremism for the sake of extremism. There is no consistency, there is nothing creative. It's annoying, loud, sensory overloading bullshit with nothing but me getting gradually more and more angry at whatever the hell I'm watching until I can't finish it.

I've finished this movie over the course of five sessions and each time I progressively get more and more pissed off that it even exists in the Troma Library.

So that's my vote, Period Piece. It's a movie that has a naked hobo doing hobo things and waving his dick around while a fat woman says things.

There's this Turkish film called the Executioner which, when it comes to The Room style levels of so bad it's good, is highly underrated. Back in the 70s Turkish filmmakers used to do lots of illegal remakes of American films and this one was a remake of Death Wish (which is all ready a questionable film in it's own right). There are little to no production values whatsoever, terrible acting, editing, filming, dialogue. In short it's laughably bad.

There are probably the worst I've seen that haven't been mentioned yet...

Ben and Arthur. It's been called the gay version of The Room, but its writing and production values are more on the level of Birdemic.

Animals United. Never mind that it contains the same done-to-death plot/message of "kind innocent animals have to stop the BIG BAD HUMANS from destroying PRECIOUS NATURE", half the characters and half the dialogue feel like they're there just to remind you that the human race is literally Hitler and should die. Every human character (except the obligatory token Mary Sue kid that helps the animals) is portrayed as either lazy, apathetic, coddled, a polluter or any combination of the four. Also, the plot is so disjointed and nonsensical as to make you feel like nothing is happening (at least nothing that makes sense...the main conflict is resolved because dried dung lands on a wayward missile and ignites it), the characters are boring stereotypes for the most part, and what little character GROWTH the writers are going for is done horribly.

Problem Child 2. Virtually no coherent plot, no real character arcs that I can think of, some of the most tired romance clichés ever to be put into fiction played completely straight, a style of parenting on behalf of the guy played by John Ritter (RIP) that pretty much rewards bad behavior...not to mention the gross-out humor that makes Double Dare look like ancient Athens. This includes but is not limited to theme park riders vomiting for a good two minutes, piles of dog shit larger than the dog itself, dog food made from horse meat, and a man unwittingly drinking urine and describing it as "tangy".

Chatterbox. No, not the one with the talking vagina. Just imagine Mean Girls if Dementors came, sucked out all of its charm and wit, and replaced it with overdone after-school-special morals.

It's probably awful in reality, but there's something about being Jewish and understanding Israeli culture that's made it a classic amongst young Jewish circles. Seriously, I don't go a week without a Zohan quote.

I would say The Room or Troll 2 but I feel movies like those almost justify themselves for bringing so much joy to people. So I'm going to go with the awful Christian football movie Facing The Giants: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805526/

Not only is it a typical, cheesy, feel-good, underdog sports movie, it also features scenes where the characters spend montages praying to God for a winning football season or something. The acting is atrocious, the camera work makes The Room look like Citizen Kane, and the message is so blunt and in-your-face it's more tragic than insulting. Terrible movie even by preachy, religious movie standards.

Back in my day, you had a Superhero by the name of Hulk Hogan. He fought for all that was good and right in America against the evil Bobby the Brain Heenan and his crew of henchmen.

Hulk Hogan finally signed on to star in a movie after his last hit, Rocky III, did well at the box office, yet he was snubbed, not receiving the Best Supporting Actor nomination he so richly deserved.

So, No Holds Barred was released. Myself and 4 of my friends were stunned at the size of the line. Nobody was there at all. We got our tickets, popcorn, soda, hot dogs, nachos, and I always get Sno-Caps.

We walk into the theater and the same people in line were in there. Nobody. 10 minutes into the movie, it was an all out battle royal. Meaning, we decided to have an over the front row of seats elimination match as the movie was the worst ever.

Then, the bad guy in the movie, Zeus, came to the WWF to face Hulk Hogan, making us into Ultimate Warrior fans.

I can stand most "shock" movies like A Serbian Film, Human Centipede, Cannibal Holocaust, etc, but the one that takes the cake for me is Galaxy of Terror.

It's such a disgusting and dark movie, it's like the only reason they did it was to show off how much gore they could pull off in that movie, oh and there's a scene where a worm creature rapes a woman. There's nothing positive you can say about the movie.